A talented friend

For a number of years my friend Sue from Utah has sent me a table quilt at Christmas.  I thought it was about time I shared her great talent with you. These all get used seasonally and cheer up our table and side tables know end. I have seen many of her large pieces and I do wonder how she finds the time for everything she makes.

Stars in the Snow

Little Red School House

Framed Four Patch

Plaid Coins

Fall Colours

Amish Nine Patch

Twist & Shout

Feedsack Flower Garden

Walk don't Run

Christmas

Antique Four Patch

I hope you agree that Sue does some beautiful work (and she knits too) and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank her, here, publically for thinking of me each year - Thank you dear friend xx

Christmas with Rufus

Opening the presents...... it took a long time

Christmas Lunch

Relaxing......

Boxing Day assembly and no the tray isn't for sitting and climbing on

Look at the beautiful chair Uncle Stuart made for me, isn't he clever

Hope you all had a good time...... now its all the leftovers )-:

A new week

After the excitement of last weeks' Knitting & Crochet Blog Week it feels a bit strange not to have a subject to blog about.  So I'll just have to wing it!

Did you have a lovely Mothers Day (UK) yesterday?  I did.  Two lovely cards with wonderful messages, books to read, a replacement Cordyline plant and a plaque for the door of the garden room, the words on which are perfect for what I plan to do with the room. Thank you girls. 

We spent the day doing jobs around the garden, went to the tip with a van load of garden/barn rubbish, one lady passing me for the fourth time on the stairs to the garden waste skip said "look at the lovely way we are spending Mothers Day". I actually didn't mind as the bags of rubbish had been driving me mad. We had afternoon tea at Rachel's which was lovely, tea from china tea cups, fresh scones and homemade jam. A perfect day.

First birthday as a Granny

Diverted again...

instead of getting on with my work in progress, remember the something for me! I got side tracked into another project, a birthday present to be precise.  A scarf for my Mum, who has her birthday on Thursday.  I'd been wearing my scarf when visiting last week and she admired it so I decided to whip one up for her as part of her present, I also made a matching corsage to pin it with. Hope she likes it........

Its back to work tomorrow, can't believe 10 days has passed so quickly, such a shame, I'd really got into the routine of including knitting as part of my afternoon, feet up, cup of tea, oh well............